Trump Admits He Doesn't Know Why Musk Met with India's Modi

Sunday, February 16, 2025

President Trump said he is personally keeping an eye on Elon Musk's conflicts of interest between his private interests at companies like SpaceX and Tesla, and DOGE. The president then said he didn't know if Musk had met India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, as a private citizen or as a special government employee.

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... President Donald Trump says he is personally monitoring Elon Musk's conflicts of interest while working at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)"but admitted he wasn't sure in which capacity the Tesla boss met India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Musk's meeting with Modi in Washington, D.C., yesterday happened before the politician sat down with President Trump, with the pair discussing issues such as space and technology.

Given Musk's two major companies -- SpaceX and Tesla -- operating in these industries, the meeting would ordinarily raise no eyebrows.

However, with Musk currently working as a special government employee in the Trump administration, questions about the overlap between his personal interests and public service continue to mount.

When President Trump was asked whether his ally and major donor Musk had met with Modi as a private citizen or a government staffer, the president was unsure.

"I don't know," President Trump told reporters in the White House. "They met, and I assume he wants to do business in India." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-15 12:49 PM | Reply

He's not a government employee and shouldn't be meeting anybody on behalf of the United States.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-15 01:08 PM | Reply

Modi is another rightwing Islamophobe, so this makes sense. Rightwingers stick together. Teflon Musk was Bibi Netanyahu's guest last year when the "Crime Minister" addressed the US Congress. See source: https://www.forbes.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-15 02:57 PM | Reply

We are seeing an AXIS of Rwing Fascist Nazis rearing it's ugly head again as it did in the 1930s, only in some new places.

Whenever the Oligarchs, Corporate or otherwise, get control of the rwing populists' politicians, and so the Government... they do exactly what the original AXIS did, and what Russia is doing now; take other countries by force.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-15 03:06 PM | Reply

There's a literal ------- Fat Donnie doesn't know.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-15 09:55 PM | Reply

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court

#6 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-16 09:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

All Trump had to do is ask. However, in case Musk's personal wheeling and dealing on the taxpayer's dime comes back to bite him, I think we can be assured that there are some things Trump doesn't want to know

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-02-17 06:54 AM | Reply

I either Leon or Modi brought up those untouchables that were recently sent back to their ancestral home, at great cost to DOGE--I mean the US taxpayer...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-17 09:44 AM | Reply

That is not the slightest of what he doesn't know is going on.

He is just there to do flyovers and attend football games.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-17 12:01 PM | Reply

Why should Leon bother telling his veep?
A cigar box filled with Sharpies ...
A stack of executive orders, each with a posted note attached so some functionary can announce its subject ...
And a box of crayons ...
Enough for Old Orange Liberace for one day.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-18 05:40 AM | Reply

Then ...
"Executive Time" ... .
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-18 08:47 AM | Reply